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Esvagt Wind – a great co-operation between shipping company and shipyard

From 2019-2021, Hvide Sande Shipyard built 5 STBs (safe transfer boats) for the Esbjerg-based shipping company Esvagt that delivers safety and service at sea.

The STBs ESVAGT WIND 5-6-7-8-9 are 12 metres long vessels with aluminium hulls. With a crew of two boat drivers, they can transport 8 service technicians and carry app. 1 ton of spare parts for offshore installations in the North Sea and adjacent waters. They are launched up to 10 times a day form a Davits crane arrangement on larger SOV-motherships (service operation vessels) but can also operate independently to and from a harbour. They are approved for a range of 200 nautical miles.

Two Volvo Penta D6 engines drive the vessels at speeds up to 30 knots. It is a highly effective working tool that satisfies – and in many cases – exceeds the customers’ expectations in terms of efficiency, versatility and reliability. Esvagt was responsible for design, construction and requirements specifications. The company also services its vessels itself.

Bjarne Mikkelsen, senior service manager at Esvagt, explains the co-operation with Hvide Sande Shipyard:

When we started the STB 12 project back in 2014, 3D drawing technology was not that developed. We therefore built a full-size mock-up and moved the components around until everything worked optimally. For the construction of vessels no. 5 – 9, we chose Hvide Sande Shipyard. We deliberately used a Danish supplier to maintain Danish jobs.

CEO Carl Erik Kristensen visited us at the start of the project and looked at a similar vessel. After a quarter of an hour, he could confirm that Hvide Sande Shipyard was capable of building such a construction and indicated an approximate price. It added up!

Of course, we entered the process with a new supplier with some hesitation. Both sides looked at each other. But it resulted in a fantastic co-operation. I had a goal that we would be as good friends and business partners at the end of the project as at the beginning – and it came true.

At Esvagt, we never compromise on safety and quality. We knew that Hvide Sande Shipyard could deliver. They are in control with their organization and documentation process.

I know many of the employees from different contexts, and Hvide Sande Shipyard has always delivered good quality on time. All challenges along the way have been resolved in the best possible way.

Agreements last when they are made, even if they are not meticulously written – after all, we are not from Jutland for nothing 🙂

Grøn methanol i tanken gør offshore service mere bæredygtig

Hvide Sande Shipyard skal facilitere ombygningen af et Northern Offshore Services (NOS) fartøj til verdens første methanol-drevne offshore CTV.

Der skrives energi- og maritim historie, når Hvide Sande Shipyard om få måneder lægger know-how og produktionsfaciliteter til en konvertering af CTVen Accomplisher fra NOS. I stedet for en drivlinie baseret på konventionel marine diesel, skal CTVen fremdrives af en hybridløsning mellem methanol og almindeligt brændstof – afhængig af tilgængelighed. Methanol udsender op til 70% mindre CO2 med en tilsvarende motorydelse. Dens passagerkapacitet udvides samtidig fra 12-24 passagerer.

Vestas, der på en 5-årig charterkontrakt bliver bruger af CTV’en, har forpligtet sig til at gøre deres operationer CO2-neutrale i 2030. Med denne methanol-konvertering vil vindmøllekoncernen undersøge potentialet – både fordele og ulemper – ved en større omstilling af deres offshore transport. CTVen skal betjene den nye 257 MW havvindmøllepark Arcadis Ost 1 i Østersøen nordøst for den tyske ø Rügen.

Vestas er med 28.000 ansatte og 160 GW installerede vindmøller i 88 lande en meget stor aktør på markedet for fremtidens bæredygtige energiproduktion.

“For at accelerere reduktionen af CO2 emission fra service fartøjer har vi brug for at få udviklet teknologiske løsninger som methanol fremdrift meget hurtigere. Vestas er stolt af at være den første pioneer indenfor bæredygtig energiproduktion til at udforske brugen af methanoldrevne skibe i vores serviceoperationer,” siger Kieran Walsh, Senior Vice President, Service, Northern & Central Europe, Vestas.

Northern Offshore Services er med flere end 40 skibe til en lang række formål en af Europas førende leverandører af Crew Transfer Vessels til offshore industrien. Firmaet arbejder målrettet på at tilpasse deres fartøjer til en driftsprofil med fokus på bæredygtighed og lav miljøpåvirkning samtidig med høj ydelse og driftssikkerhed.

Hvide Sande Shipyard har med foreløbigt 9 leverede skibe (færger, fiskefartøjer, skoleskibe og multi-purpose vessels) med hybridfremdrift lagt sig i spidsen på det skandinaviske marked.

”Vi er stolte af, at NOS har valgt os som leverandør af et fremtidssikret koncept med en klar grøn profil,” udtaler COO for Hvide Sande Shipyard Jeppe Hoff.

”Vi fortsætter hermed det gode servicesamarbejde med NOS, som vi har udbygget de senere år. Methanol, der har virkeligt gode forbrændingsegenskaber, kan produceres miljøvenligt og energieffektivt på de kommende projekterede Power-to-X-anlæg, som udnytter fossilfri strøm fra offshore vindmølleparker.”

Wyvern

Wyvern is an 18 m open sea sailing ship operated by Stavanger Maritime Museum.
The ship was designed by Colin Archer on a commission from British-born Frederick Croft and was launched on 10 August 1897.
She sank in the Baltic Sea on 11 July 2013 during the 2013 Tall Ships’ Race. The crew was rescued, but a member of a rescue team died during the accident.
She was raised from the seabed in August 2013 and returned to Stavanger.
In December 2013, her repairs started at Hvide Sande Shipyard.

Nordwind

LOA – 26,9 m

Beam – 6,5 m

Disp. – 110 t

Sail area – 165,8 m2

SSB Nordwind was laid down as an armed fishing vessel in 1945 and completed as a Bermuda rigged ketch by the British Occupying Forces in 1948. She served as a coastal patrol vessel, before being transferred to sail training activities for the West German Bundesmarine, a role she has fulfilled from 1956 to 2006. The Deutsches Marinemuseum in Wilhelmshaven acquired her in 2008, and since then she has provided daysails for up to 35 guests, as well as taking up to 10 guests on longer trips. She has also participated in various events such as Kieler Woche and Jade Cup.

Arriving at Hvide Sande Shipyard in late 2021, Nordwind has been the subject of considerable renovation. Her stem has been replaced and large amounts of her oak planking renewed as well as surface treatment of her steel frames, beam shelves deck beams and stringers. She has been fitted with a new watertight bulkhead, an electric bow thruster, hydraulic steering equipment and new generator unit. Furthermore, her weather deck (previously a patchwork of larch, oak, plywood, fiberglass and teak) has been replaced with one of traditionally laid pine. She has also been sheathed in copper plating below the waterline to minimize marine growth.
(Text – Tom Salter)

Madonna

The 3 masted schooner was built in 1942, based on drawings from the 19th century as a freight vessel. Main dimensions of the vessel are 43 x 7,2 meters.
In the years 2003-2009, we did several restauration jobs on the ship, including straightening of the keel, new stem, new main engine and replacement of the wooden deck.
At the time, the vessel was owned by the Danish brewery, Carlsberg, who used it for representation and press conferences. In 2004 they even used it for PR at the European football championship in Portugal.
In 2010 it was sold and renamed to “Zar”. 

Fyrskib XVII

The ship was built in 1895, where it was used as a lighthouse vessel for the first 24 years at Helsingør. After that, it served at Gedser Rev until 1972.
Since then, it has been a museum vessel in different harbors.
Since 2018 it has been back in Helsingør, where it started its service.
In 2003, it went through a major restauration at Hvide Sande Shipyard.

Fulton

The schooner Fulton was built in Marstal in 1915 and originally sailed with saltfish in most of Europe.
Later, it has a history as a school ship and is operated today under the same spirit as a “charter schooner”.

The National Museum owns the schooner, and it is today operated by the Fulton Foundation. First in the 1990s they were looking for a shipyard that had the professional competence and experience in building and maintaining wooden vessels. Attention fell on Hvide Sande Shipyard. Here there was a real so-called cutter factory that build ships that can withstand both being used for commercial purposes and in the event of bad weather on the North Sea.

So, Fulton arrived at Hvide Sande Shipyard for the first time 30 years ago. For 3 decades, the schooner has called at Hvide Sande for carrying out keel hauling and life-extending maintenance.

Restoration tasks such as keel straightening, replacement of frames and cladding, help to give Hvide Sande Shipyard a detailed knowledge of the ship’s structure, shape, special boat techniques and – for its time and type – typical solutions. All maintenance tasks around the schooner Fulton have been carried out, carefully planned and without the schooner having had a break in operation.

Fionia

Fionia (as the ship is named now) was built in 1904.
It was used as a cargo ship until 1960, before becoming a sea angling ship in Elsinore.
From 2004 it worked as a daytrip vessel, until the destillery in Nyborg bought it in 2012. 
At our shipyard, we have had the pleasure of taking care of the maintenance since 2005.
Many jobs have been done in order to keep the ship in good shape.

Elbe no. 5

The German schooner, built in Hamburg in 1883, underwent major restoration in the winter of 2018/2019, and had major damage repaired in the winter of 2019/2020.

Elbe no. 5, which originally served as a pilot boat at the entrance to Hamburg and was since owned by various private individuals around the world, has returned to the port of Hamburg.

The new circle of owners in Hamburg has ordered the restoration of the schooner at Hvide Sande Shipyard, where it has had more than 100 frames replaced, each designed according to their own template, as well as over 1250 metres of cladding. The schooner has also received a completely new keel, and all work has been done in oak specifically purchased and stored for the task.

In the winter of 2019/2020, Elbe no. 5 had major damage repaired after a collision and is now back in Hamburg where the owners are finalising equipment of the schooner.

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Alta

M314 Alta is one of Norway’s largest wooden ships and was built in the USA in 1953. Alta, in recent years operated as both a museum ship and used in minor expeditions from Oslo, has now been returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy. Today, Alta is located in Oslo and, in the future, the Navy will only operate the wooden ship, which is worthy of preservation, as a museum ship.

Hvide Sande Shipyard, Steel & Service has completed Alta’s most recent restoration years ago. Among other things, the restoration involved the replacement of the pine cladding, the pine lining and parts of the oak ice protection, as well as the replacement of frames and other parts of the hull construction.

The work carried out was done with great enthusiasm, and Hvide Sande Shipyard, Steel & Service is pleased that the ship will continue to be operated and thus maintained.